February 8, 2010
Early in January, two AHF employees packed their bags and began their cross-country journey with the goal to Test America. To date, Azul MaresDel-Grasso and Eric Boyd, both of which are HIV Testing Counselors, have traveled 4,500 miles and tested over 550 individuals. Read More...
February 3, 2010
By: Rong-Gong Lin II
Los Angeles County officials Tuesday rebuffed demands from an AIDS activist group that the county immediately require performers in porn films to use condoms. Read More...
February 3, 2010
By: Jan Jarvis
The Magic Johnson HIV testing tour will roll through North Texas this week to offer free screenings and promote awareness of the disease. Read More...
February 3, 2010
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will host a media availability Wednesday, February 3rd all day to blast Los Angeles County officials including Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky for passing the buck during today’s Board of Supervisors meeting regarding the County’s responsibility to ensure the safety of adult film workers working on production sets in Los Angeles County by using existing County statutes to require and enforce the use of condoms in porn. Read More...
February 3, 2010
Today, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, which provides medical care and/or services to more than 120,000 individuals in 22 countries worldwide, opened two Men's Wellness Centers (MWC), one at AHF’s Westside Healthcare Center in Beverly Hills, and one at AHF’s Magic Johnson Clinic at the Carl Bean House. Read More...
February 2, 2010
AHF’s Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six month, 48 state national cross country HIV testing tour, will ride into Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas for four days of testing events. Read More...
January 29, 2010
By: Joey Amato
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, establishing a greater presence in South Florida, has filed complaints with officials in the Florida Health Department, alleging that Miami-made sex films are using actors who do not use condoms. Read More...
January 28, 2010
By: Oriana Schwindt
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) centers won’t be seeing Merck reps again anytime soon. AHF released a statement Monday banning reps from its US clinics, citing what foundation President Michael Weinstein calls the “reprehensible” high cost of the company’s first line treatment Isentress (raltegravir). Read More...
January 28, 2010
By: Marc Iskowitz
It was activism that drew the world's attention to the HIV epidemic and to the need for ethical standards in AIDS-drug testing. And activism is once again playing a role, this time in challenging a drug company, Merck, over the price of HIV/AIDS medicine Isentress. Read More...
January 28, 2010
By: Patrick Range McDonald
After waging a six-year battle against Southern California's multibillion-dollar porn industry with no end in sight, Michael Weinstein, the outspoken, hard-charging founder of the Los Angeles–based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is getting ready for another rumble. Read More...
